The Argument lyrics

Song information

Artist: Ulver
Album: Themes From William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

Lyrics

[Plate 2]
Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air;
Hungry clouds swag on the deep, once meek, and in a perilous path
The just man kept his course along the vale of death
Roses are planted where thorns grow, and on the barren heath
Sing the honey bees, then the perilous path was planted:
And a riverland a spring on every cliff and tomb:
And on the bleached bones red clay brought forth
Till the villain left the paths of ease, to walk in perilous paths
And drive the just man into barren climes
Now the sneaking serpent walks in mild humility
And the just man rages in the wilds where lions roam
Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air;
Hungry clouds swag on the deep

[Plate 3]
As a new heaven is begun
And it is now thirty-three years since its advent:
The eternal hell revives
And lo! swedenborg is the angel sitting at the tomb:
His writings are the linen clothes folded up
Now is the dominion of edom,& the return of adam into paradise;
See isaiah xxxiv & xxxv chap: without contraries is no progression
Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy
Love and hate, are necessary to human existence
From these contraries spring what the religious call good & evil
Good is the passive that obeys reason
Evil is the active springing from energy
Good is heaven, evil is hell